Welcome to Australia!

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Producers: Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Knapman & G Mac Brown
Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood, Stuart Beattie & Richard Flanagan
Music: David Hirschfelder
Release Date: Jan 22, 2009 (Hong Kong)
Running Time:  166 mins.
Budget:  US$130 million ($78M after Australian tax rebates)

Australia

It is a beautiful picture. The film is a character story, set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised backdrop of events across Northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin in Australia during World War II.

Australia Trailer

I did not have a keen interest to see this movie. It was Alan who was always saying he wanted to so we went. Turned out we both liked the movie very much. 160 minutes passed with just an eye blink. The characters including the child who played the aboriginal child were all so good. The horses, cattles, war, bombs..... And I read some materials on web and learnt that originall Heath Ledger was casted but backed out to do The Black Knight.

Cast

Hugh Jackman as Drover

Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Asley

Brandan Walters as Nullah

David Gulpilil as King George